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2014What does an idle CPU do? (manybutfinite.com)
324 points | 2 years ago with 100 comments
2014Why is printing “B” dramatically slower than printing “#”? (stackoverflow.com)
324 points | 8 years ago with 54 comments
2014Microtiming in Metallica's “Master of Puppets” (metalintheory.com)
323 points | 1 year ago with 246 comments
2014John Carmack on Inlined Code (number-none.com)
322 points across 3 posts | 4 years ago with 169 comments
2014Quake on an oscilloscope (lofibucket.com)
322 points | 7 years ago with 26 comments
2014Using the Wrong Dictionary (jsomers.net)
320 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 33 comments
2014Money creation in the modern economy (bankofengland.co.uk)
318 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 114 comments
2014How I Came to Write D (drdobbs.com)
317 points | 6 years ago with 188 comments
2014Heisenberg Developers (mikehadlow.blogspot.cl)
315 points | 8 years ago with 189 comments
2014“Invalid Username or Password”: a useless security measure (kevin.burke.dev)
313 points | 2 years ago with 277 comments
2014Why Python is Slow: Looking Under the Hood (jakevdp.github.io)
312 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 178 comments
2014Why Don't We Have a General-Purpose Tree Editor? (pcmonk.me)
308 points | 7 years ago with 212 comments
2014Different ways to build a $100M business (christophjanz.blogspot.com)
307 points | 5 years ago with 61 comments
2014CSS-Powered 3D Engine (keithclark.co.uk)
305 points | 5 years ago with 67 comments
2014So you want to write your own CSV code (thomasburette.com)
303 points | 4 years ago with 253 comments
2014X Window System Basics (magcius.github.io)
302 points across 2 posts | 1 year ago with 89 comments
2014We are all confident idiots (psmag.com)
302 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 52 comments
2014Following a Select Statement Through Postgres Internals (patshaughnessy.net)
302 points | 8 years ago with 27 comments
2014Let's compile like it's 1992 (fabiensanglard.net)
301 points | 7 years ago with 69 comments
2014The WhatsApp Architecture Facebook Bought for $19B (highscalability.com)
300 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 6 comments
2014A Good Vimrc (dougblack.io)
298 points | 7 years ago with 53 comments
2014Lisp, Smalltalk, and the power of symmetry (insearchofsecrets.com)
298 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 86 comments
2014Sick of Ruby, dynamic typing, side effects, and object-orientation (blog.abevoelker.com)
295 points | 7 years ago with 378 comments
2014Quadratic voting (ericposner.com)
294 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 109 comments
2014Programmers, teach non-geeks the true cost of interruptions (daedtech.com)
293 points | 3 years ago with 242 comments
2014If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I paying $10? (webmasters.stackexchange.com)
293 points | 8 years ago with 112 comments
2014A little-known Soviet mission to rescue a dead space station (arstechnica.com)
291 points across 3 posts | 3 years ago with 21 comments
2014Almost Everything in “Dr. Strangelove” Was True (newyorker.com)
290 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 59 comments
2014The British amateur who debunked the mathematics of happiness (theguardian.com)
289 points across 2 posts | 6 years ago with 213 comments
2014The Toxoplasma of Rage (slatestarcodex.com)
286 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 0 comments
2014Evidence of massive-scale emotional contagion through social networks (pnas.org)
285 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments
2014No, you can’t manufacture that like Apple does (beneinstein.medium.com)
285 points | 1 year ago with 208 comments
2014NSA Said to Have Used Heartbleed Bug for at Least Two Years (bloomberg.com)
285 points | 5 years ago with 133 comments
2014Semantic compression (caseymuratori.com)
284 points across 5 posts | 1 year ago with 30 comments
2014Why bad scientific code beats code following “best practices” (yosefk.com)
283 points | 8 years ago with 261 comments
2014The Naked Truth About Writing a Programming Language (digitalmars.com)
281 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 3 comments
2014Assertions are pessimistic, assumptions are optimistic (blog.regehr.org)
280 points across 4 posts | 1 year ago with 9 comments
2014Microsoft Word for Windows Version 1.1a Source Code (computerhistory.org)
280 points | 7 years ago with 134 comments
2014Facebook will lose 80% of users by 2017, say Princeton researchers (theguardian.com)
280 points across 2 posts | 7 years ago with 206 comments
2014Friends Are Genetically Similar (nature.com)
280 points | 7 years ago with 190 comments
2014A sound so loud that it circled the Earth four times (nautil.us)
278 points across 2 posts | 4 years ago with 36 comments
2014A whale who tried to mimic human speech (smithsonianmag.com)
278 points | 3 years ago with 133 comments
2014Masters of Love: Lasting relationships come down to kindness, generosity (theatlantic.com)
276 points | 6 years ago with 111 comments
2014Syntax highlighter is wrong (jameshfisher.com)
276 points across 2 posts | 2 years ago with 41 comments
2014How X Window Managers Work, and How to Write One (jichu4n.com)
276 points | 3 years ago with 244 comments
2014Simple Exercises To Help Undo the Damage of Sitting (artofmanliness.com)
275 points | 7 years ago with 95 comments
2014The dangers of streaming across versions of glibc: A cautionary tale (postgresql.org)
274 points | 5 years ago with 80 comments
2014The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering: Mastering Complexity (ocw.mit.edu)
274 points | 8 years ago with 23 comments
2014If Andromeda Were Brighter, This is What You’d See (waitbutwhy.com)
272 points | 4 years ago with 72 comments
2014Why the world needs OpenStreetMap (blog.emacsen.net)
271 points | 6 years ago with 65 comments
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